Centre for Bioinformatics

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About the Centre                                                                                               Centre Website : www.bicpu.edu.in

The Centre for Bioinformatics was established as Sub-DIC in the year 1991-92 which was later upgraded to DIC. The Centre has taken an initiative in manpower development in Bioinformatics and started an Advanced Post Graduate Diploma Course in Bioinformatics with the support from the Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi in the year 2001 and Post Graduate programme in Bioinformatics with the support from UGC from the year 2007 .

The Centre has so far conducted twenty one seminars, workshops and training programmes in the last fifteen years. The Centre has been offering a four credit course in Bioinformatics to the students of the University since 1994.

The Centre has undertaken several collaborative projects in various areas like comparative genomics, Zinc finger protein engineering, molecular modeling, drug target identification, development of teaching aids in bioinformatics, etc. The Centre has been providing computational facilities, bibliographic searches, bioinformatics related services to its users. More than 150 regular users from various departments of Pondicherry University, affiliated institutions and nearby Universities have been using these facilities. The Centre has 4 positions of Studentship/Traineeship of one-year duration sponsored by DBT, Government of India, to train postgraduate degree holders in various aspects of bioinformatics.

Programmes of study

M.Sc. (Bioinformatics)
Advanced Post Graduate Diploma in Bioinformatics
Ph.D.
(Bioinformatics)

Stipend:
A stipend of Rs.5,000/- p.m. is provided by the Department of Biotechnology, GOI, New Delhi for all the students admitted to the Advanced Post Graduate Diploma programme.

Entrance Examination
The question paper for Advance Post Graduate Diploma programme & M.Sc. Programme will be having  objective questions. For Ph.D. programme candidates qualified for JRF (CSIR) and those selected for projects are eligible.

Dr. P.P. Mathur,

Coordinator

For contacting on intercom numbers dial 2655991 to 2655998 and the number

Faculty

Professor
* P.P. Mathur
Ph.D (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)
Biochemistry of Reproduction, Molecular Biology, Environmental Endocrinology, Bioinformatics.  419,417
* D. Sundar
Ph.D (Pondicherry University, Pondicherry) Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Protein Engineering
472

* Recognised as Supervisor for guiding scholars leading to M.Phil and Ph.D

Thrust Areas of Research
DNA-Protein Interactions, Genome Sequence analysis, Protein Structure Modeling, Molecular modeling, Drug Design.

Technical Personnel

Mr. M. Sundara Mohan - Information Officer

Ms. V. Amouda -Technical Assistant

Vacant - Computer Operator

Ms. Shanthi N. - Computer Operator

Ms. N. Bhanumathi - Data Entry Operator 

Phone: +91-413-2655212     Fax: +91-413-2655211         E.Mail : bicpu2001@yahoo.co.in  

Website : www.bicpu.edu.in